right, well it seems things have finally quieted down. no more intrusions [sup malaysia], no more drama, no more e3, no more random hardware failures, no more school [for another few days], etc. and hey, after last night i should've filled my weird-dream quota for another month or so.

i won't get into the first dream, because it was a bit too weird. the second one was a generic school anxiety dream. it's been about 24 hrs, so it's fading quite well by now, but it was something along the lines of being in a class where it's just . . infinitely generic. there wasn't any instruction, no details given for what work is to be turned in, etc. and i couldn't find any details at all as to exactly what the subject was, it was just . . "class".

so i kept going along, hoping that it'd become clear, hoping it was somehow just me miraculously sleeping through just the important parts of the class. then they started talking about the final, a paper. since i had no clue what was going on, i wrote a paper about writing papers for classes where no one will explain what the hell is going on. before turning it in i talked to the prof, and he explained that oh, this is a foreign language class, and then i looked at my paper, and it was written in whatever bizarro sim-speak language my subconscious constructed for this dream. not knowing exactly what to do, i figured i'd might as well turn it in and see what happened.

i was very sad that i woke up before i could find out what my grade was. it was a good magic-meta-dream-paper. i think i passed, but i can't be sure, and now i'll never know.

i bet the course was worth several credits towards my magic nonexistant dream-degree. [05.17.04@04:15]

hello internet, i would like to register a complaint with your friend, television. two commercials need to go away because they suck. first, royal bank of scotland choking-guy commercial. no i do not want to watch some guy gasping and choking on television. the gagging noise makes me ill. also: why the hell would anyone want to do banking from america to scotland? go away, no one cares. second, solae protein quiz. your commercials suck so much that the entire concept of the commercial is that everyone being "quizzed" already knows and NO ONE CARES.

seriously, though. what the hell were they thinking when they came up with this aggressive ad campaign? "OK GUYS, WE'VE GOT THIS ANNOYING CONCEPT OF A QUIZ: 'WHICH HAS PROTEIN?!!' THEY BOTH HAVE PROTEIN!1! LOLOLOL! IT'LL BE GREAT! AND THE ACTORS WE'LL BRING IN, THEY'LL KNOW IT'S ALL PROTEIN! AND THEY'LL ALL BE HORRIBLY DISINTERESTED, ANNOYED, OR EVEN ANGRY WITH THE PEOPLE 'RUNNING' THE QUIZ!!!11!1 CLEARLY, VIEWERS WILL NOT FEEL DISINTERESTED, ANNOYED, OR ANGRY, WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!!?! THIS IS A WONDERFUL IDEA NOW LETS MAKE 80 VERSIONS AND PUT IT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!" shut up. go away. no one cares - exactly like they don't in the ads. now go away and take your protien with you. [05.30.04@06:38]